I started coding at 37 after spending 10+ years in academia as a molecular biologist.
By accident. No grand plan. No childhood prodigy story.
Just curiosity, a laptop, and the extremely dangerous discovery that making computers do things is addictive 😊
@koki7o I turned 40 a few days ago :) I'm building left and right, too many things at once, there's a post with all my projects on my profile if you want to check them out!
@DanielSmidstrup I'm almost never out of ideas. My brain works on overdrive, I juggle too many things at once, my problem is that I have too much to post about 😀
I just made a game, check it out 😊
Last night I made a dumb little game where AI goes haywire on a Friday afternoon 😂
Every choice is reasonable. Every choice ends the same way. You can't win, that's the joke 😁
Try it out and have fun! 👇
https://t.co/MfHdlSoUWN
A lot of you saw my post about starting over in your 30s.
Here's the receipts. Most of it never saw the light of day, but you don't get the ones that work without building the ones that don't 😉
It's never too late. It's just a lot of late nights 🤣
Things I was told I was too late for at 37:
– learning to code
– switching careers
– being good enough to be respected at it
Today I'm an AI engineer, I build my own things on the side, and my life has never been better.
Whatever you think you're too late for - you're not! 🥳
@AveryChernin Well most of them never saw the light of day 😀
The only one that I actually pushed out there into the void and tried to monetize is Welcome book, got one customer down, another in the pipeline!
@AndrewWriteCopy You were the most adorable child, I can picture you on a commercial 🥰
But I must say, you're that smart and capable, yet you think British food is the best in the world?! Have you traveled? Come to Croatia for a week so I can change your mind 😂
Oh, and happy bday 🥳
@liutauras_liu I was a biochemist until my mid 30s when I discovered my love for programming. Now I'm 40 and an AI engineer. I've never been happier and all I did was listen to my heart 🙂